ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 TiM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 TiM 's Advantages

Released 13 years late

Boost Clock1410MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

4288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (220W vs 294W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3070 TiM +615%

16.6 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce RTX 3070 TiM

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

Nov 2022

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

915 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1410 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

448.0GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

46

1600

Shading Units

5888

80

TMUs

184

32

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

184

-

RT Cores

46

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

4 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

135.4 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

259.4 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

16.60 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

16.60 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

259.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

220W

600 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GA104

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

17.4 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

392 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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